Bingo. Is this the USA or freakin China?!
I do not want to be a parts collector
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Bingo. Is this the USA or freakin China?!
To be fair, seems like a good bit of your original post was complaining about the HOA. I didn't get the vibe that you are happy with the HOA.
I could never live in one, but I was born and raised in a briar patch.
I'm being a bit sarcastic. I've only lived in WA for 4.5 years and we've been talking about moving to ID for 4.5 years. A lot of Californians are moving into the N ID panhandle as well as Montana, and those are both great places. I don't know how long they will stay great places. N ID homes are very expensive and with interest rates high it's the worst of times for a move. Stealing your word, "unobtainable" right now. Utah looks good in the future, but mostly just for the outdoor activities and beauty.
I hail from TX. Lived there 45 years. I lived in the NE, W, and Central TX. Only place to go that's worth anything is Central. There are lake chains and rivers through that area (helps you not melt in the summer). If you're looking for out of the way places that are close enough to a decent city I'd look at small towns around Dripping Springs, Canyon Lake, Boerne, Marble Falls. This is also the only areas where there is any decent wheeling (see Wolf Caves in Mason, TX and Hidden Falls ORV just outside Marble Falls, TX). Good rock crawling at Wolf Caves. A mixture of mud and rock crawling at Hidden Falls.
yep buy 10 acres and paint YOUR house whatever color YOU want. work on your car in the front yard, back yard or driveway. And if you want to plant a tree you don't need someone to tell you what kind and where to plant it. But you wont be able to wave at the neighbor while your standing in the bathroom taking your morning pee ......yea I just wouldn't fit in to a HOA neighborhood. I bet they wont even allow you to sight in your rifle in the backyard, Hell they probably wont allow you to have a gun in THEIR house....
I only have 8 acres but I’m 1/2 mile down a dirt road and surrounded by about 100 acres of family property.
Blessed!
Yep, I will never live in or close to a large city ever again.
I drive 40 miles to work now, and at times it's still to close.
When I worked in Atlanta we lived in a campground in Tallapoosa, GA. 62 miles from where I worked.
I know a guy who bragged about how he would never live somewhere that has an HOA.
Then he started complaining about a new neighbor who had junk cars, late night shenanigans, etc.
Can't have it both ways.
HOAs are designed to keep property values up, and the riff raff out.
I'm one of those that if it's not broken or is salvageable, I keep it. Every so often however I go through and purge a lot of stuff. I have no storage room in my house, my 24x45 garage which I do woodwork, gunsmithing, and automotive work in is jam-packed.
So anything from vehicles I no longer own has been purged. Jeep stuff (2 sets of factory wheels, bumpers, spare factory fenders, etc) are being retained for now. Anything I remove from a vehicle I still own, I keep in case I want to return to stock. Anything else, I try to sell if it's something someone may want. After a few weeks, it gets junked or burned.
My ultimate solution to this issue is to sell my house as soon as we're able, buy some acreage, and build basically a warehouse to use as my new shop/storage/whatever I want.
So anything from vehicles I no longer own has been purged. Jeep stuff (2 sets of factory wheels, bumpers, spare factory fenders, etc) are being retained for now. Anything I remove from a vehicle I still own, I keep in case I want to return to stock. Anything else, I try to sell if it's something someone may want. After a few weeks, it gets junked or burned.
My ultimate solution to this issue is to sell my house as soon as we're able, buy some acreage, and build basically a warehouse to use as my new shop/storage/whatever I want.
@bmcgc do you still have this? Been a long time.....i am trying to source the ac pulley shown in the pic above. If you have the engine, could you see if there is a part number on that setup?
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what kind of communist bullshit is this lol. your county dictates what you put on property you own? that would never fly up here.
i couldnt imagine being in that situation. tough to sell the stuff but tough to keep it because of rules. wild.
i couldnt imagine being in that situation. tough to sell the stuff but tough to keep it because of rules. wild.